ReadWriteWeb reports that Delver has launched their social search site - attempting to take over the search world. When you do a search on Delver, the service taps into your social graph to return its search results.

Read more here (RWW)

After having layed-off 30 employees this year, Zend has raised 7M$ from TriplePoint, in what is their fifth investment round. Zend is developing tools for the open-source PHP language. The rumors are that this is an investment just before a buyout, possible IBM.

Read more here (Globes, hebrew) 

PLYmedia (platform for interactive viewing of video on the web) has just raised 6M$, in a second round, from Greylock capital, and Elron group. PLYmedia was founded in 2006, and has 25 employees.

Read more here (Globes, hebrew)

Hen Mendelson from Flixwagon (who also operates the Xellular blog) will start writing for GigaOm. Good luck ;-)

Read more here (TheMarker, hebrew)

Metalgrass software (by Ron Mertens) is now offering a free toolbar for AdSense publishers. The toolbar can monitor the AdSense account, offering easy access to basic statistics. It also include popular links and blogs related to web publishing and AdSense, and a few other gadgets. The toolbar was built using Conduit's platform.

Click here for more details on the AdSense Toolbar. 

Canadian company GS NEw Media (owned by the Israeli Gravity company) will invest 4M$ in developing a virtual-world for the series 'The Saddle Club'.

Read more here (Globes, hebrew)

TWS2008 is happening today (July 1st) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The conference is organized by the.co.ils and aims to present the 10 most promising Internet startups in Israel.

Ten startups were chosen out of 100 that applied. The startups were selected by an impressive list of judges.

And the 10 winners are:

Wix

The next MIT event will take place in Tel Aviv University on Tuesday, July 22 between 4pm and 8:30pm.

The subject is Internet marketing: from traffic to sales.

Among the speakers:

Alon Carmeli, CEO of Babylon

Tlalit Prescher, VP Marketing, CAL

Debbie Cohen Abarbanel, Aladin

Register here.

aniBoom, the premier independent animation network, has just closed a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and existing investor Evergreen Venture Partners. The company will leverage the new financing to expand operations, fund short form premium content for web and mobile platforms, and develop original animation series for television.

aniBoom was founded in 2006 and is led by entertainment and new media veterans- Uri Shinar is the founder and president.

Here the PR and Techcrunch coverage.

Following yesterday's news about Zango laying off 75 employees, we got word from Zango themselves, who say the piece is wrong... It's only 68 and not 75. And they are still optimistic, which is not surprising to hear. Here's their official statement:

Zango's top priority for 2008 has been the planning, development and release of Platrium, a unique casual gaming experience launched in beta last month. During this time, it has become clear that this new product is the future of the company and, as a result, Zango is narrowing its focus.